mogul1
/ˈməʊɡ(ə)l
/noun
1 informal An important or powerful person, especially in the film or media industry: the Hollywood movie mogul, Sam Goldwyn...
- Perhaps it seemed routine for one of the world's most powerful media moguls to take a leadership post at one of the most influential think tanks in Washington.
- Why are you down on all these big, powerful media moguls?
- The organisers, three of New York's most powerful media moguls, were avoiding the obvious comparison.
Synonyms
magnate, tycoon, VIP, notable, notability, personage, baron, captain, king, lord, grandee, mandarin, nabob
informal bigwig, big shot, big noise, big cheese, big gun, big wheel, big fish, top dog, Big Chief, Big Daddy, biggie, heavy, fat cat
North American informal kahuna, top banana, big enchilada, macher
2 (Mogul) A steam locomotive of 2-6-0 wheel arrangement.This stripped Mogul in the erecting shop is former SP No. 1771, a favorite of mine since childhood.
Origin
Late 17th century: figurative use of Mogul.
If you are a skier you are probably familiar with the mogul, the hump or bump that disrupts your progress. This has nothing to do with the movie mogul. The skier's mogul comes from Austrian German Mugel ‘hillock’. The media mogul is a use of Mogul, a member of the Muslim dynasty of Mongolian origin, which ruled much of India from the 16th to the 19th centuries. This historical term is now more usually spelled Mughal. It is originally from Persian mugul ‘Mongol’.
Rhymes
mogul2
/ˈməʊɡ(ə)l/noun
A bump on a ski slope formed by skiers turning: [as modifier]: a mogul field...
- This will teach your body to react to variable surfaces such as a mogul field on a ski run.
- This cat track then empties out into another run that has lots of moguls (bumps or mounds of hard snow on a ski slope) and they were big ones!
- Crashing through gates and bouncing over moguls, competitive skiers pound their knees mercilessly.
Origin
1960s: probably from southern German dialect Mugel, Mugl.
Mogul3
/ˈməʊɡ(ə)l/(also Moghul or Mughal)
noun
1A member of the Muslim dynasty of Mongol origin founded by the successors of Tamerlane, which ruled much of India from the 16th to the 19th century: [as modifier]: Mogul architecture...
- The Mughals were Muslims who ruled a country with a large Hindu majority.
- The Mughals of India were mighty rulers, for three centuries, especially in their golden days for six generations, from
- The Taj Mahal is the most beautiful monument built by the Mughals, the Muslim rulers of India.
1.1 (often the Great Mogul) historical The Mogul emperor of Delhi.Gowing asked: ‘Are you a believer in the Great Mogul? ‘and then stood up.’...
- The representations of Jahangir, the Great Mogul, by English travellers, merchants, and diplomats who visited and resided in India in the early seventeenth century largely perpetuate this binary.
- A letter of his from the court of the Great Mogul is printed by Purchas, and this and another letter from the East are included in the compilation.
Origin
From Persian muġul 'Mongol'.